New To WW - What Is With All The Norm Bashing?

Good one!!

Being a bass player, I am a sucker for a 'groove'. There are some bands where the rhythm section's hearts beat together and they meet on top of the beat and shake hands: Dire Straits, Neville Brothers, Little Feat, New Grass Revival, Big Twist and The Mellow Fellows, Wailing Wailers, are at the top of my all time list in this department.

That's funny, same here.

Barry

Was that Niven/Pournelle or just Niven? I'm thinking Niven alone.

I haven't read that in well nigh forever, but it's a good'un. Most realistic space battles I can ever remember reading in anything.

The sequel was OK too, though I don't remember much more than the title. "The Gripping Hand."

Who wrote "Ringworld?" That was Niven too, wasn't it?

Maybe I'm mis remembering, I thought it was a collaboration.

Yep, "Ringworld" is Niven alone.

Back on topic: Norm got me into wood working. And even my father-in-law, a retired finish carpenter, watches him.

Tom Royer Lead Engineer, Software Test The MITRE Corporation

"If you're not free to fail, you're not free." --Gene Burns

collaboration. well under Larry Niven's usual standards.

great stuff.

On the one hand, it's a sequal.

On the other hand, it's by authors I enjoy.

The gripping hand is that it's a good book for a number of reasons. Well worth reading, imo.

Just Niven iirc. He also wrote the Gateway books.

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:38:58 GMT, Doug Winterburn brought forth from the murky depths:

I finished "Ringworld", then "Ringworld Engineers" last month. Then I found "The Mote in God's Eye" (excellent also) and Jerry's "King David's Spaceship" (fairly good but not up to par with Larry's solo work or their team efforts.)

Today I brought home "A World Out Of Time", "Oath of Fealty" and "The Smoke Ring". "Trees" and a couple others are left. I'm trying to read those I can find locally in order of their writing.

I cleaned up the shop tonight and am going to paint the bleeding wall with some of the Kilz2 tomorrow morning. That guy must have smoked his cigars out there for decades, I swear. Anyway, THEN I can build some cabinets and find the rest of my tool and get to work on one/some/all of the projects I've been putting off.

Maybe even the low^Hvely bow saur.

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If you liked Mote, then get "Gripping Hand", the sequel.

djb